Gloucestershire Tesco has bag shortage and people 'walking out with shopping in their baskets'

Library filer dated 16/1/2005 of a shopper at a Tesco store in Ashford, Kent. The supermarket giant Tesco has announced annual profits of £2.21 billion - an increase of 16.7% on a year earlier. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture issue date: Tuesday April 25, 2006. See PA story CITY Tesco. Photo credit should read: Gareth Fuller/PA.

It's a case of BYOB (bring your own bags) if you're heading to Quedgeley Tesco this week as the supermarket have run out.

Customers at the Quedgeley Severn Vale Tesco Extra, located in Bristol Road, have been forced to "juggle" with their shopping to the car park as the store is suffering a bag shortage.

The admin of the 'Spotted: Quedgeley, Kingsway and Hardwicke' Facebook page posted on Monday night: "Tesco Quedgeley Severn Vale do not have any form of carrier bag out with their shopping in shopping baskets and Tesco's on warning people!!!

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Other Tesco customers commented that they had the same "nightmare" experience:

Helena Cook said: "I had this problem yesterday they also offered me a box and I had a pram to push so not ideal, luckily I was with my friend and she also had a pram so we filled the bottoms of our pram and had to juggle the rest until I went in the pharmacy where my mum works and got one there.

"Definitely taking bags with me next time, I just always seem to forget I have them.

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"You'd think they'd have them on order all the time. Silly when you run out of bags in a shop! Total nightmare."

Nicola Gaulder commented: "The only bags they had earlier on were the freezer type bags at £2 each i forgot my bags. So they offered me a box! "Which was great but i already had a pram to push... defo going prepared next time! Nightmare."